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fascinating ... consistently engaging and intelligent and represents a major contribution to our understanding of the cultures of Victorian and Edwardian scientific practice. * Michael Brown, Social History of Medicine * In its careful, wide-ranging, imaginative argument, On Flinching makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of science and theatre during the age of Darwin and melodrama, Ferrier and Zola. * Stanton B. Garner Jr., Theatre Journal *

fascinating ... consistently engaging and intelligent and represents a major contribution to our understanding of the cultures of Victorian and Edwardian scientific practice. Michael Brown, Social History of Medicine In its careful, wide-ranging, imaginative argument, On Flinching makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of science and theatre during the age of Darwin and melodrama, Ferrier and Zola. Stanton B. Garner Jr., Theatre Journal

fascinating ... consistently engaging and intelligent and represents a major contribution to our understanding of the cultures of Victorian and Edwardian scientific practice. Michael Brown, Social History of Medicine

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Tiffany Watt-Smith is a cultural historian and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently working on a book about the cultural history of involuntary mimicry from 1850 to the present day. She is also working on a book for wider audiences, The Book of Human Emotions to be published by Profile Books. Before returning to her academic studies, Tiffany worked for ten years a professional theatre director, holding full-time posts as associate director at the Arcola Theatre and International Associate at the Royal Court. In 2004 she was a recipient of the Jerwood Award for Directors at the Young Vic.

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